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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File Photo) On the occasion of National Technology Day 2019, President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday greeted the nation and remembered the achievements of the scientific community. President Kovind said India is committed to using technology to accelerate development and ensure every citizen has a dignified existence. PM Modi said the hard work of the country’s scientists has always ensured a stronger and safer India. “May we continue leveraging the power of technology for national progress,” he said. National Technology Day is celebrated annually…

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi banned high-denomination currency bills in a surprise move late last year, authorities noticed a surge in shell companies depositing cash in banks, seemingly in a bid to hide who owned that wealth. The moment, said a top aide to Modi, was an eye-opener for the government, which had not realized just how much shell companies were being used to hide assets and launder money. Modi’s office has formed a team of top law enforcement and revenue officials to go after such companies, according to the aide…

India’s health ministry has trimmed its cost estimates for extending its main public health programme by 25% after criticism from a federal think-tank over inefficiency and slow progress, according to government documents seen by Reuters. The new estimate of $25 billion for a three-year extension of the flagship health programme, down from an initial figure of about $33 billion, comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes a multi-pronged agenda to revamp health services. Planned reforms include streamlining spending and bureaucracy, slashing prices of life-saving drugs and medical devices, and nudging companies…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the ‘South Asia Satellite’ to be launched by India on May 5, will go a long way in addressing the region’s economic and developmental priorities. “The capacities of this satellite and the facilities it provides will go a long way in addressing South Asia’s economic and developmental priorities,” the Prime Minister said in his radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’. “Natural resources mapping, tele medicine, the field of education, deeper IT connectivity or fostering people-to-people contact – this satellite will prove to…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched for conducting simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies and shifting to a January- December fiscal year. Addressing the Niti Aayog Governing Council’s third meeting, which was attended by several state chief ministers, Modi said for long, India had suffered from economic and political mismanagement. “Because of poor time management, many good initiatives and schemes had failed to deliver the anticipated results,” he said, adding there is a need to develop robust arrangements that could function amidst diversity. The prime minister…

Terming the smog situation in Delhi an environmental emergency, the Swaraj India party on Sunday accused the Delhi and central governments of failing to tackle pollution. “Be it the Municipal Corporations of Delhi, the Delhi government or the Centre, none of the authorities have done justice to the tasks assigned to them, which would have led to control over pollution,” said Swaraj India President Yogendra Yadav. “As the toxic smog continues to loom over the national capital, Swaraj India expresses deep concern over the collective failure of the Delhi and…

taking on those linking yoga to Hindu religion, high Minister Narendra Modi stated on Tuesday that yoga changed into no spiritual pastime and people ought to embrace it for higher mental and bodily fitness.Addressing over 30,000 yoga fans at ‘metropolis stunning’ Chandigarh’s Capitol complex, Modi also said that the UN-declared global Day of Yoga had come to be the most important worldwide mass movement.The rain gods, who had given a scare simply hours ahead of the yoga event, stored away at some stage in the nearly one hour session on…

Yoga is not only a shape of exercising, it’s far more than that. If adopted as a way of life, it permit you to in severa approaches to live healthy, preserve a test on numerous illnesses and be healthful. Addressing a gathering of yoga fans in Chandigarh on worldwide Yoga Day, prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the factor that yoga can manage diabetes if now not remove it. He similarly delivered that a public motion ought to be commenced via yoga to address the problem of diabetes in our us…

The sixth world Ayurveda Congress (WAC) and Arogya Expo turned into held lately in New Delhi with the aim of integrating Ayurveda with the mainstream public fitness device and additionally propagating it globally as a safe and cost-efficient fitness care alternative. The event become organized by using the AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) department below the Union fitness and own family Welfare Ministry, in collaboration with the world Ayurveda foundation (WAF) and the Delhi authorities. It was graced by top Minister Narendra Modi who pressured on…